Blog & Reflections
Welcome to my collection of essays, reflections, and analyses. Here, I explore ideas across history, government, military affairs, philosophy, and religion — not just to understand the world better, but to challenge how we think about it.
"History is a silent tutor, but few listen long enough to understand its warnings."
The rise and fall of small republics in ancient Greece are often presented as closed chapters, relics of a distant past. Yet, they are anything but irrelevant. Their trajectories — their triumphs and especially their downfalls — offer urgent lessons for modern democracies struggling with polarization, erosion of civic trust, and the temptations of power.
Can a nation strike first and still call itself just? This essay explores the deep moral tensions behind preemptive war — from Just War Theory to modern case studies — and asks whether survival and principle can ever truly coexist.
Can law truly restrain evil, or does it merely disguise it? This essay explores how history, philosophy, and human nature reveal the fragile — and dangerous — relationship between justice and power.
In the medieval world, faith and force were never separate. Religion did not merely justify war; it gave war its meaning, its fury, and often its illusions. To fight was not just to defend land or honor, but to serve the will of God — or what men claimed was His will. This essay explores how belief shaped bloodshed, and how the battlefield became a place where theology and ambition collided.
What if the problem isn’t that people stopped believing in God — but that they forgot how to imagine Him? This essay explores how icons, liturgy, and stillness in Orthodoxy heal not just the mind, but the imagination itself.
We act like reason stands alone — above belief, beyond bias. But what if logic itself depends on something deeper? This essay argues that even the sharpest mind cannot think clearly without a metaphysical foundation.
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